Botanical Gardens

You are indeed a lover of botanical gardens. :) I am not a big fan but it calms my spirit whenever I am inside the garden. We have a lot here in the Philippines. One of which is my favorite, "National Botanical Garden". It is few hours away from Manila and situated in a beautiful valley. It is cold because it is elevated (300 meters I guess). There plenty of ferns, rare orchids and plants. I also had a chance to visit Singapore's Botanic Garden when I was working in that country. The rubber tree orchard is really amazing because you will be walking inside the rubber tree arc. It also has huge number of flora and fauna. rainforest and a lot of eye catching colorful flowers and orchids. It is the best place to relax. I was able to visit the garden in Malaysia (since it's just an hour away from Singapore), the Perdena Botanical Garden in the main city, Kuala Lumpur. It is located at the back of the famous Petronas Twin Towers. I went there with my mother as she is a big fan of gardens too. It's a garden/park where you can also see a man made lake in the middle. There are ferns, plumeria, forest trees, waterfalls, orchids and the like. It really calms my spirit :) Hoping to visit few more botanical gardens in neighboring Asian countries. :)

I love to visit botanical gardens in different places in the world. In my home country I have been to Kew Gardens in the west part of London. It has ornate looking green houses one with tropical looking plants. I visited the Sydney Botanical Gardens in my favorite city in Australia. I went to Cape Town's botanical gardens too. Wow! I loved visiting a botanical Garden on Vancouver Island in Canada. Last year I walked around a botanical garden in Brazil. My daughter met some friendly children there to play with for a while. I find botanical gardens relaxing and enjoyable to visit. Last summer I visited some of the gardens of Cornwall beginning with the Eden Project. I adore palm like plants and others that look tropical. Every summer I go on Sunday visits to people's gardens open to the public. I especially like the hardy exotic type gardens that look tropical.

There is a big botanical gardens on one of the islands off the south coast of UK. Not sure if you have heard of the Isle of Wight. Ventnor Botanical Gardens it's a wonderful place to go, trouble is you need more than a couple of hours to really appreciate all that it has to offer. Sadly there are all too few of these places, and none within reach of where I live.